Maggie Gilchrist

Stephen C.E. Hopkins

Department of English

Research Interests
apocrypha; religious literature; Old English, Old Norse, and Celtic languages and literatures; reception theory; hermeneutics; history of the Bible; history of emotions; history of the afterlife; theology; etymology

Joseph Morgan

Research Interests
Middle English language and literature; Marian devotion in medieval England; medieval British drama

Sally Morrell

Department of Comparative Literature

Research Interests
early modern lyric poetry in Europe and the Middle East; Persian literature; concepts of imitation; translation theory; mystical literatures

Tyler Nighswander

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine

Research Interests
history of the role of biology in Islamic thought; classical/medieval Islamic biology; evolution-creationism Debate in the Islamic world; role of classical/medieval Islamic philosophy in the Islamic world’s reception of Darwinism

Miriam L. Poole

Department of Theatre, Drama, and Contemporary Dance

Research Interests
medieval British religious drama; medieval German religious drama; aesthetics; theology; history of comedy; history of tragedy; the connection of 19th century Romanticism to medieval culture

Heidi Støa

Department of English

Research Interests
Middle English literature; Old Norse literature; the transmission of texts in the medieval North Atlantic (the British Isles, Scandinavia, Iceland); medieval and modern aesthetics (especially the aesthetics of animation and the moving image); image theory; medieval theories of memory; and translation

Emerson Storm Fillman Richards

Department of Comparative Literature

Research Interests
production and reception of manuscripts; history of the book, codicology, and paleography; post-medieval uses of manuscripts; illustrated Anglo-Norman and Carolingian Apocalypses; Celtic literature and languages; Arthurian and courtly literature (primarily Anglo- and Francophone)

Sean Tandy

Department of Classical Studies

Research Interests
late Roman and early Byzantine history; Boethius and Boethian reception; post-Nicene Christianity; Roman satire; Roman philosophy and natural history

Andrea Whitacre

Department of English

Research Interests
Middle English; Old Norse; Old English; Latin; and Old French literature; posthumanism; critical animal theory; twelfth century; werewolves and shape-shifting; identity and the body

Andrew Woodworth

Department of History

Research Interests
political and cultural legitimacy; political myth; identity; ideas of the 'Barbarian'